Willard Peck, also known as Bill Sharp, was the sheriff of Daughtrey.
Biography[]
Willard Peck was a wanted outlaw for rustling cattle from farmers and plantation owners, having a $200 bounty on his head dead or alive. To hide, Peck changed his name to "Bill Sharp" and was elected sheriff of Daughtrey.
Meanwhile, Dr. King Schultz would recieve a warrant from his judge for Peck's bounty. Sometime after that, after freeing Django, the duo would make it to Daughtrey and enter a saloon. Due to the town's strict laws on having black men in establishments, the Innkeeper flees the saloon hollering for the authorities, to which Schultz specifically instructs to bring the Sheriff rather than the U.S. Marshal, to which he complies.
Peck enters the saloon and has the boys exit the saloon, where all the town's citizens have gathered up outside to witness. He demands to know what they're doing in town.
Rather than replying Schultz shoots Peck with his Derringer, first wounding him in the stomach before finishing the job with a deadly shot to the head, causing the entire town to panic and flee. Schultz then tells the innkeeper that he may now get the Marshal, to which the innkeeper complies.
U.S. Marshal Gill Tatum with 100 deputies gather up outside the saloon armed and aimed. Schultz then calmly exits the saloon with his warrant in hand, explaining to the Marshal who he is, who Peck really was, and why he killed him. Schultz then presents the warrant of a Chief Judge who can confirm the true identity of the Sheriff to back up his action. After the Marshals and his men are fully convinced, he then summarizes that the Marshal pretty much now owes him the $200 bounty, much to Django's surprise.